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Morning Star (Cheyenne: Vóóhéhéve; also known by his Lakota Sioux name Tȟamílapȟéšni or its translation, Dull Knife) (c. 1810–1883) was a great chief of the Northern Cheyenne people and headchief of the Notameohmésêhese ("Northern Eaters"; also simply known as Ȯhmésėhese or "Eaters") band on the northern Great Plains ...
May 16, 2024 · Morning Star (l. c. 1810-1883) was a chief of the Northern Cheyenne, better known by his Sioux name, Dull Knife. He is best known for his leadership during the Northern Cheyenne Exodus from the reservation in Oklahoma to Cheyenne lands in modern-day Montana.
- Joshua J. Mark
Dull Knife was a chief of the northern Cheyenne who led his people on a desperate trek from confinement in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) to their home in Montana. He was known to his people as Morning Star. Five months after Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s defeat at the Battle of the Little Big.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dull Knife (or Morning Star, as he was called by the Cheyennes) was not at the Little Bighorn. He was one of the few Northern Cheyenne Council Chiefs that had remained close to the White River Agency to show the whites that he wished to remain at peace.
DULL KNIFE (ca. 1810–1883). The Northern Cheyenne leader Dull Knife was born circa 1810 on the Rosebud River in present Montana. He "touched the pen" at the 1868 Fort Laramie treaty council, identifying himself as Morning Star.
Although this famous Cheyenne chief was best known as Chief Dull Knife (or Motšêške Ôhnêxahpo in Cheyenne, a translation of his Lakota name), his Cheyenne name is Morning Star. The life of Dull Knife, the Cheyenne, is a true hero tale.
Nov 16, 2009 · Cheyenne chief Dull Knife (also anglicized as "Morning Star") and his people are defeated by U.S. army soldiers after one of their "outbreaks" from reservation confinement. In doing so, the...
